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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PouchDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Widely used in-process key-value storeJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitemanticoresearch.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlpouchdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperManticore SoftwareOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleApache Software FoundationVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2017199420122011
Current release6.0, February 202318.1.40, May 20207.1.1, June 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Any that supports .NET
Data schemeFixed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.Can index from XMLyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenono
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.Net
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoBased on Windows Authentication

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